Monday, August 22, 2016

Unfortunately, now I am in a very very stressful phase of my life and because of that I haven't been able to maintain the same pace of updates concerning my beading progress. That's why I decided to focus on my facebook account and share things only there for a while. So if you're interested in what I am doing and what I'm up to you can check out my facebook page and give it a "Thumbs up" ;-)

Monday, July 11, 2016

Lou decided to create a big project with many other people in the slowest technique possible as an artwork. Covering for example a whole kitchen with tiny beads is one of the slowest tenchniques possible for creating art, indeed! The result is truly breathtaking! Here are the photos from Lou's best known work "Kitchen" an the project "Bachyard".

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Yeah - the head is completely finished! For that I needed to make the hair, in pretty much the same way as one would make a wig, weaving each hair into a "base" which in its turn needed to get stitched to the head. Why not sewing the hair directly to the head? Well, in case I am not content with the way the hair looks like, I can remove it more easily from a "base" rather than from the head because it strain unnecessarily the threads that hold the head together... There were to versions of the ears, these looked more like elven ears. Finally, the braids around the ears and the eyebrows. Now, need to make the clothing.

Monday, June 13, 2016

As this Monday's inspiration I want to introduce you to Karen Paust. Paust embraces her interest for different artforms - beading is only one of them - and botany. And the results of this combination are mesmerizing!

Monday, May 16, 2016

Last Monday's inspiration came from Manfredini's adorable beaded objects. This Monday I wanted to peek over to beaded jewelry again and show you how inspirational it can be for creating beaded objects. As this Monday's inspiration I want to intoduce you to Suzanne Golden and her "wearable art."

Golden rocks the peyote stitch. Through combining beads of different size and colour she is able to create completely new, mesmerizing pattern. Her works are bright, colourful, sometimes hypnotic even and always fun!

Sunday, May 8, 2016

The body, the legs and the arms are jointed. It can move its arms, legs and knees freely, the feet are quite flexible, as well, due to different joints that I tried out. Because the proportions don't suit a human, I decide that it is an elf, a house elf probably. Now the elf will get a curly head and some funny elf ears!

I remember seeing Manfredini's figures for the first time in a book that contained lots of photos from different beaded artworks. Unfortunately, I was not able to take the book with me, but I still remember many featured works and I'm really happy each time I find the artist who created them. I stumbled upon Manfredini's homepage not so long ago and I was very excited to finally have found more works of this playful artist!

I really like the playful spirit of Manfredini's artworks, the combination of the colours and its simplicity! Also, Manfredini works mostly with simple seed beads, whereas other beaders often feature other kinds of beads, and I think that Manfredini shows beautifully how versatile seed beads are in themselves!